Across the length of Greece and its wildly divergent landscapes, architectural styles, dialects and dances, exists a lynchpin that embodies all that it is to be Greek. In Greek culture, it is a place to come home to. Bottling the very essence of our concept of ‘Filoxenia’ (showing kindness to strangers), the Taverna is a dining room in which locals and travellers eat side by side.

HERE’S MY TOP TEN TAVERNAS IN ATHENS CHOSEN FOR AUTHENTICITY AND FOOD - please keep them a secret!